“Perhaps the most conspicuous one [pattern] he [Jonathon Green] found was how consistent, and how unsettling, the themes of our genitalia words have remained over time. As green told reporters shortly after his study was published, “The penis is often going to be some kid of weapon, the vagina some kind of narrow passage, intercourse some way of saying ‘man hits woman.” LanguageGenitaliaEuphemisms Book:Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Source: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
“Overall it’s really clear that the way we talk about genitals is a super concentrated representation of how we thing about sex and gender,” he [Lal Zimman] tells me. “The research that people have done on heteronormative gender naming really shows that our worst cultural values are reflected in the ways we talk about genitals. Like penises are always weapons that exist for penetrating, sex is always violence, and women and vaginas are passive and absence, just a place to put a penis.” LanguageGenitaliaEuphemisms Book:Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language Source: Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language